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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Lawyer At Work: Putting His Legal Skills To Good Use

By Ariana Payne


Legal representation should be the first thing that you should look for the moment you find yourself facing formal charges lodged against you. It does not even matter if you did commit the crime or not; you should get someone to help you. What you need is a very good criminal defense lawyer. The nature of any good lawyer will be to work with the facts at hand and find ways within the justice system to prove the innocence of the client. In the interest of setting his client free, he will go to great lengths, even manipulate or twist the law, in order to achieve his objective.

The first thing that must be made would be a strategy of defense. This will be via access the case and the amount of evidence that works against the case, assessing its validity and influence. They will look and the circumstancesthat surround all facts of the case to deduce the best strategy. The client would have to be informed by the lawyer if the chances don't seem too good. The attorney would not take that as a sign of giving up entirely, though. If he could not get an acquittal for his client, he would focus on getting the least possible amount of punishment that will be meted out by the courts.

The strategy will revolve around what the law states, facts from previous cases that have similarities to that of the client and the evidence collected. The lawyer will also take use what the client gives as an account of what happened. The attorney will see which evidence are strong or persuasive enough to get his client off and make use of them. The evidence should be persuasive enough to hold its own in court, and it is up to the lawyers to find them if the current evidence are lacking. The evidence can be collected from various sources including statements given by valid eye witnesses.

A good attorney will ensure that they do all the above before the case starts in the court. This is referred to as the pre-trial phase. During this phase, the attorney will cross-examine the client, employing all the resources he was able to accumulate. The client will be up to speed with what might transpire once the case is presented and fought before the court. This helps sharpen the client when cross examined by the prosecution and the right conduct even when put under intense cross examinations during the trial. During the pre-trial session, the lawyer will also formulate several theories of what might have lead to placing his or her client in this legal predicament and may even us some of these theories in the court.

There is no assurance that working really hard would mean the lawyer would get a positive result and the case will be won. If the case looks bleak, the good lawyer will be able to spot it immediately. He will also be truthful about it to the client. But he will also try his best to get the least severe punishment he could get. If the client gets convicted, it will also be up to the lawyer to file an appeal for the case to continue the fight to prove the client's innocence.




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